Compiling Packages

[Dan Pelleg]

Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
>> A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on
>> FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that
>> they need more machines to compile the code and wanted to know if I wanted
>> to donate, or words to that affect.
>> 
>> In any case, would that refer to donating an actual computer, or simply
>> donating computer time? I have three computers, only one running FreeBSD
>> at this time. I certainly am not going to give away any of my computers,
>> but I would be willing to share time on one of them if that would help.
>
> What would be useful is multiple (e.g. at least half a dozen) fast
> machines with good network connectivity.  Individual machines aren't
> much help, I'm afraid.  Thanks for the offer though.
>

Just a thought - a distcc based system should be able to take advantage of
such offers. (No, I'm not volunteering to set one up).

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  Dan Pelleg